""Thomas A. Edison: An Inspiring Story For Boys"" is a book written by Francis Trevelyan Miller that tells the story of the famous inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison. The book is aimed at young boys and aims to inspire them through Edison's life story. The book covers Edison's early life, including his struggles with hearing loss and difficulty in school, as well as his early experiments with electricity and telegraphy. It then goes on to detail his many inventions and innovations, including the phonograph, the light ...
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""Thomas A. Edison: An Inspiring Story For Boys"" is a book written by Francis Trevelyan Miller that tells the story of the famous inventor and businessman, Thomas Edison. The book is aimed at young boys and aims to inspire them through Edison's life story. The book covers Edison's early life, including his struggles with hearing loss and difficulty in school, as well as his early experiments with electricity and telegraphy. It then goes on to detail his many inventions and innovations, including the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture camera. Throughout the book, Miller emphasizes Edison's perseverance and determination, highlighting his many failures and setbacks as well as his successes. The book also touches on Edison's personal life, including his marriage and family, and his philanthropic work in later life. Overall, ""Thomas A. Edison: An Inspiring Story For Boys"" offers a fascinating and inspiring look at one of the most important inventors in history, and is sure to inspire young readers to pursue their own dreams and passions.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Good. Size: 95x14x144; This is the 1940 edition; 320 p., clean and unmarked with b&w photographic end pages showing New York skyscrapers lit up at night; many period photos, drawings and engrawings, holograph of letter; binding tight; despite absence of d.j. the black boards clear gilt lettering have only light wear--slight bumping at corners and one tiny discoloration.
